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Archive of posts published in the tag: Sultan Knish

Bashing Capitalism for Profit

Daniel Greenfield wrote Capitalism: A Hate Story in his blog, The Sultan Knish, 2/27/13. Excerpt: Ever since the birth of democracy and even before it, politics has come down to who claims to care the most for the people. There was hardly a

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Inequality in Power, Not Money, is the Real Threat

I have posted several article seeking better information about the myths commonly accepted about the gaps in income and wealth distributions.  Some of this analysis in seen here, here, here, here, here,  here, and here. Daniel Greenfield in his excellent

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Human Drones

From Daniel Greenfield in the Sultan Knish, The Dreaded Drone, 3/11/13 Excerpt: We aren’t dealing with fascism, we’re dealing with bureaucratic collectivism. Rather than a militarized society, what we have is a socialized society. The people who run it don’t

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Making Better Things

Daniel Greenfield writes in Sultan Knish Making the World  A Better Place, 3/10/13. Excerpts: The idea that making the world a better place begins with dedication to humanitarian activity is a dangerous fallacy. There are extraordinary people who can genuinely

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When to Glorify a Tyrant

Getting Rich by Fighting for the Poor from the blog of Daniel Greenfield – Sultan Knish, 3//7/13 Excerpt: Chavez died with an estimated net worth of 2 billion dollars making him the 4th richest man in Venezuela and the 49th

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Fighting for Control of a Dead Economy

From The Road to Oligarchy by Daniel Greenfield in Sultan Knish Excerpts: There is also very little social mobility. Human ingenuity can allow people to become wealthy under nearly any set of circumstances, but it’s a good deal harder to do it under an

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It’s Just History

Daniel Greenfield wrote Capitalism: A Hate Story in his blog, The Sultan Knish, 2/27/13. Excerpt: The traditional image of the anti-capitalist as a ragamuffin who dies of consumption in his garret has always been at odds with the real image

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An Assumption of Decency

Daniel Greenfield writes The Guns of Obamerica in his blog The Sultan Knish, 1/20/2013. Excerpts: 67% of firearm murders took place in the country’s 50 largest metro areas. The 62 cities in those metro areas have a firearm murder rate

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A Manufactured Consensus

Dan Greenfield write in his blog Sultan Knish The Unverifiable World. Excerpts: The proliferation of bad faith experts, experts for hire and amateur experts means that there is more bad science than there is good science, more wrong ideas than

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Whiskey, Drugs, and Guns

Daniel Greenfield writes The Guns of Obamerica in his blog The Sultan Knish, 1/20/2013. Excerpts: Reformers in the twenties blamed the plight of the slums on the availability of liquor. They rammed through Prohibition for the entire country to fix the cities. The

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A Tale of Two Revolutions

Daniel Greenfield writes And This is Revolution in his excellent blog, Sultan Knish, 1/14/13. Excerpt: It’s the aspiring middle class that begins revolutions, but when they turn bloody enough, then they usually aren’t the ones who inherit them. An ascending

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The Paradox of Government

Stanley Greenfield writes in Sultan Knish, The Perfect Prison excerpts: Bloomberg is a living model of the glass half-full theory of human behavior. This is after all a man who banned large sodas, and if you can’t trust people to

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Why Democracy Fails in the Middle East

Daniel Greenfield write a bit of profound analysis of Democracy in With a Pocketful of Democracy in his blog Sultan Knish Excerpt: In an amoral society, democracy is one of the few things left to us by dead white men

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Blind Intellect

Paul Johnson writes Men Blinded By Their Brains in the November 19, 2012 issue of Forbes Excerpt Of course, intellectuals, whom I define as those who think ideas are more important than people, are notoriously bad at seeing the ordinary

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Clever Fools

Daniel Greenfield write in his blog, Sultan Knish, Carny Nation, 11/10/12 Excerpt: Fools come in all shapes and sizes, in all races, religions and bank account sizes. Dumb isn’t measured by degrees or IQ points. Dumb people can absorb a

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The New American Jew

Daniel Greenfield writes in his blog Sultan Knish, The Jewish and Post-Jewish Vote, 10/25/12 Excerpts: In 1892, Jews came to the United States as cheap labor. In 1946 they came with the remnants of communities that they were determined to rebuild.

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The Second Wave of Jewish Immigrants

Daniel Greenfield writes in his blog Sultan Knish, The Jewish and Post-Jewish Vote, 10/25/12 Excerpts: American Jews can be broken down roughly into the products of three periods of immigration. This second wave turned rigidly Democratic under the rough tutelage

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The Threat of Mediacracy

Daniel Greenfield writes in his excellent blog Sultan Knish The Rise of the Mediacracy, 10/17/12 Excerpts: A nation where governments are elected by the people is most vulnerable at the interface between the politicians and the people. The interface is

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short circuited by group interests

Daniel Greenfield write in his excellent blog,  Sultan Knish, A Debate in the Land of the Deaf, 10/3/12 Any political campaign today is short circuited by group interests. Like a broken marriage the whole thing shamelessly dissolves into a custody battle

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Breadth and Depth

Daniel Greenfield writes in his blog Sultan Knish, The Limits of Government Power, 10/14/12 Excerpts:  A country and a people can be measured in its breadth and its depth. A government can either choose breadth of control or depth of

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